Chapter Summaries

Xie Feng declared himself Great Wilderness Heaven’s new Immortal Lord and confronted the Immortal Alliance inspectors over their demands and authority. He refused to surrender the penal prisoners, leaving Immortal Elder Liu, Elder Ge, and Elder Mu furious and warning of the enemies he would make.

• Immortal Elder Liu and the other inspectors arrived at the reception hall, where Qin Dai refused to offer them pills and Meng Hao dismissed their hints for gifts.
• Xie Feng entered and introduced himself as Great Wilderness Heaven’s new Immortal Lord, prompting the inspectors to demand to know what had happened to Lie Wei.
• Xie Feng said Lie Wei had been removed and challenged the inspectors to replace him if they objected.
• When Immortal Elder Liu asked about Zhao Yuejia, Xie Feng blamed the inspectors for losing control of the prisoner.
• Xie Feng declared that Great Wilderness Heaven’s penal prisoners were now his subjects, and warned the inspectors they might not leave Wilderness City if they continued speaking disrespectfully.

Xie Feng let the Immortal Alliance inspectors leave Great Wilderness Heaven, then his poison killed all three of them on the road. Back in Wilderness City, Changying realized what Xie Feng had done and praised him.

• Elder Ge, Elder Mu, and Immortal Elder Liu abandoned their objections and promised to report Xie Feng's status to the Immortal Alliance.
• After the inspectors left, Xie Feng asked Changying to examine a teacup, and she reacted with astonishment.
• Elder Ge vowed to have Xie Feng eliminated, but Immortal Elder Liu suddenly lost his sight, hearing, speech, and ability to breathe before his body withered away.
• Elder Ge and Elder Mu recognized that Immortal Elder Liu had been poisoned, but both soon suffered the same symptoms and died.
• In Wilderness City, Changying realized Xie Feng had poisoned the inspectors and praised him.

Xie Feng explained why he had killed the Immortal Alliance elders and summoned the convicts he had imprisoned in the Convict Tower. He told the 500,000 convicts to leave Great Wilderness Heaven, claiming his conflict with the Immortal Alliance should not drag them down and that their Punishment Marks could no longer be tracked.

• Xie Feng described Tun Chen’s Five Decays Withering Poison, which had killed the three Immortal King elders, while Changying and the others reacted to its potency.
• Xie Feng explained that the elders would have recognized Great Wilderness Heaven’s changed fortune and strength, making their deaths necessary to deter the Immortal Alliance.
• Xie Feng ordered Meng Hao and the others to gather the convicts, and they assembled 500,000 prisoners in Wilderness City.
• Xie Feng told the convicts that he had offended the powerful Immortal Alliance and urged them to leave, saying the broken Heavenly Punishment Sacred Formation made their Punishment Marks untraceable.

Xie Feng offered the convicts a choice between remaining imprisoned, leaving, or pledging themselves to his Xuanji Sect; three hundred thousand stayed and became the Great Wilderness Army. As they swore loyalty, the Heavenly Ranking appeared across the First Heavens, while Feng Beiyou sensed that something extraordinary had happened in the Great Wilderness Heaven.

• Xie Feng offered the five hundred thousand convicts three choices, and two hundred thousand chose to leave while three hundred thousand remained.
• Xie Feng freed the remaining convicts from their status and brands, tempered them with the Saint Dragon Earth Vein, and named them the Great Wilderness Army.
• The Great Wilderness Army knelt and pledged loyalty to Xie Feng.
• A vast golden scroll appeared across the sky, and Xie Feng recognized it as the Heavenly Ranking and sensed a subtle connection to it.
• In Azure Nether Heaven, Feng Beiyou's divination bead representing control over the Great Wilderness Heaven exploded, leading him to suspect an extraordinary event linked to Zhao Yuejia.

Feng Beiyou recalled Zhao Yuejia’s revenge for his sister’s death, while Luo Xingchuan heard that Xie Feng had taken control of Great Wilderness Heaven. The Heavenly Ranking descended and began naming the world’s ten greatest young heaven’s chosen, starting with Yun Muhan.

• Feng Beiyou condemned Zhao Yuejia for killing his father and escaping exile in Great Wilderness Heaven.
• Lie Wei told Luo Xingchuan that Xie Feng had colluded with Zhao Yuejia, taken the Wilderness City deed and the Immortal Lord’s position, and driven him out.
• The Heavenly Ranking appeared and announced a Newcomer Ranking that would select and reward ten young heaven’s chosen.
• Lie Wei praised Luo Xingchuan as a likely first-place candidate, but Luo cautioned him against boasting.
• The Heavenly Ranking revealed Yun Muhan of Cloud Palace as the tenth-ranked newcomer and displayed a video.

Yun Muhan returned to the Cloud Palace, where his parents pressed him to choose a marriage partner, before the Heavenly Ranking revealed Feng Beiyou in ninth place. Feng Beiyou learned that Immortal Elder Liu had died, leaving the cause of the death unknown.

• Yun Muhan returned to the Cloud Palace after ten years away, and the palace mistress and palace master confronted him with portraits of potential brides.
• Yun Muhan tried to argue that his parents might accept a woman from a lower tier, but the palace mistress said she would consider it if the woman was outstanding.
• The Heavenly Ranking rewarded Yun Muhan with Cloud Saint's Qi and revealed Feng Beiyou in ninth place.
• Feng Beiyou saw his ranking and felt disappointed that he had not placed in the top three.
• A subordinate reported that Immortal Elder Liu's life candle had gone out, and Feng Beiyou used his abacus to confirm that the elder had fallen.

The Heavenly Ranking revealed that Cang Lingzi and Jiang Fei, both ascenders, had ranked above Luo Xingchuan, shocking the Upper Realm. Jiang Fei received her reward in Weiyang Heaven and reaffirmed her resolve to revive her master, despite Leng Ruoshuang’s concern that she was consuming her vitality.

• Feng Beiyou learned that Immortal Elder Liu, Elder Ge, and Elder Mu had perished in Great Wilderness Heaven, then stopped divining when a golden dragon’s phantom made him feel threatened.
• The Heavenly Ranking named Luo Xingchuan fifth, prompting astonishment at the young Immortal Alliance deputy leader’s placement; Luo accepted the result and wondered whether Xie Feng might rank.
• The ranking named Cang Lingzi fourth, revealing that the ascender from Long Wave Heaven was only eighteen in physical age and had reached the Immortal Emperor Fifth Stage.
• Jiang Fei, an unaffiliated ascender from Weiyang Heaven, took third place and received a wisp of the Great Dao of Nothingness.
• Jiang Fei told Leng Ruoshuang that her master’s kindness and teachings had made her resolve to bring her back to life, even as Leng Ruoshuang questioned her continued consumption of vitality.

The Heavenly Ranking revealed Changying in second place and Xie Feng in first, both ascenders from Xuanji Sect in Great Wilderness Heaven. As the Upper Realm reeled at Xie Feng’s Immortal Thearch cultivation, Luo Xingchuan warned that he was a capable and dangerous opponent.

• The Heavenly Ranking named Changying, a twenty-one-year-old Immortal Emperor, as its second-place entry and showed her standing amid snow and ocean waves.
• Yun Muhan declared that he wanted to marry Changying, and his parents agreed to visit Great Wilderness Heaven to propose.
• Changying received a thread of the great Dao of great fate and entered seclusion to comprehend it.
• The Heavenly Ranking named Xie Feng, a twenty-four-year-old Immortal Thearch and ascender from Xuanji Sect, as its first-place entry.
• Feng Beiyou watched Xie Feng’s ranking and smiled coldly, while Lie Wei recognized him and complained to Luo Xingchuan that Xie Feng had taken his position.
• Luo Xingchuan told Lie Wei that Xie Feng had risen from a red dust immortal to seize the Immortal Lord position of Great Wilderness Heaven with Zhao Yuejia, and warned him not to underestimate Xie Feng.

After the Heavenly Ranking announced the Sword Immortal Ranking would appear in three years, Xie Feng used the Ancient Path of Samsara and rose to Sainthood. His sixth reincarnation ended when a silver-dressed woman at the end of the universe destroyed his consciousness, and he then shared a lifetime of reincarnation with the Xuanji Sect elders.

• The Heavenly Ranking revealed that the Sword Immortal Ranking would be announced in three years, and Xie Feng received the Ancient Path of Samsara.
• Xie Feng completed five reincarnations, strengthening his abilities and reaching eighth-stage Quasi-Saint.
• In his sixth reincarnation, Xie Feng encountered a silver-dressed woman who summoned a Great Dao Beast and destroyed his consciousness with a sword strike.
• Xie Feng awakened in the Xuanji Sect and became a first-stage Saint at twenty-four, retaining two unused reincarnations.
• Xie Feng summoned the elders and transmitted to them the providence of one lifetime of reincarnation so they could cultivate.

Xie Feng restored Chi Hun’s severed arm and helped him break through to the Immortal King tenth stage with a saint-grade pill. The Heavenly Ranking then revealed that Chi Hun was actually Yun Muchen, the Cloud Palace’s exiled eldest young master, and he began explaining why he had been imprisoned.

• Xie Feng gave Chi Hun a Nine Absolutes Bone-Growing Pill, which regrew his arm and advanced him three cultivation stages.
• The Heavenly Ranking replaced Yun Muhan with Yun Muchen, listing him as a tenth-stage Immortal King affiliated with the Xuanji Sect.
• The Cloud Palace reacted to Yun Muchen’s ranking, while Yun Muhan and the Palace Consort noted the Xuanji Sect’s growing prominence.
• Chi Hun received the Heavenly Ranking’s reward and admitted to Xie Feng that he was Yun Muchen, the eldest young master of the Cloud Palace.
• Yun Muchen said he had been exiled to Great Wilderness Heaven two hundred years earlier after killing an Immortal Venerable’s daughter, claiming she was ugly.

Yun Muchen told Xie Feng why he had been imprisoned in Great Wilderness Heaven, while Changying broke through to Immortal Thearch Second Stage with startling speed. The Heavenly Ranking showed Xie Feng’s cultivation as infinity, and the Cloud Palace’s master arrived to visit.

• Yun Muchen explained that he had killed his arranged fiancée after fleeing their marriage, leading to his imprisonment in Great Wilderness Heaven.
• Changying emerged from seclusion after breaking through to Immortal Thearch First Stage, astonishing Yun Muchen with how quickly she had advanced.
• Changying froze up, slapped Yun Muchen into the sky after his teasing, and returned to seclusion; she soon emerged at Immortal Thearch Second Stage.
• The Heavenly Ranking updated Changying’s position and displayed Xie Feng’s cultivation as ∞, prompting people across the First Heavens to speculate about his strength.
• A guard told Xie Feng that the master of the Cloud Palace from Withering and Flourishing Heaven had come to visit, and Yun Muchen reacted with alarm.

Changying rejected the Cloud Palace family’s attempt to arrange a match with Yun Muhan and invoked the Seven Stars Domain to make them back off. Back in the Xuanji Sect, Xie Feng began preparing Great Wilderness Heaven for the upcoming Ten Thousand Immortals Assembly and chose Yun Muchen to compete, while Yun Muchen asked permission to retrieve his weapon.

• Yun Muchen learned that the Cloud Palace’s master had arrived and withdrew, while Changying went out to meet the visitors.
• The Cloud Palace’s master and consort proposed that Changying become Dao companions with Yun Muhan, but she rejected them and warned them to keep Yun Muhan away from her.
• Changying’s mention of the Seven Stars Domain alarmed the palace master, who recalled its Star Lord Xuanyuan Zhige and ordered Yun Muhan to stop pursuing her.
• Xie Feng refined batches of pills as Jiang Xieyue explained that the Ten Thousand Immortals Assembly would begin in half a year.
• Xie Feng selected Yun Muchen to represent Great Wilderness Heaven, and Yun Muchen asked permission to leave the mountain and retrieve his weapon.

Xie Feng, Yun Muchen, and Changying traveled to Yin-Yang Heaven to visit its mysterious immortal market, which would open when the sun and moon joined. While waiting at an inn, Xie Feng learned about the market’s dangers and rules from an attendant, who refused most of the fortune Xie Feng offered.

• Yun Muchen invited Xie Feng to the immortal market in Yin-Yang Heaven, and Xie Feng brought Changying along.
• The three reached the border city and booked the inn’s finest rooms, with Xie Feng charging Yun Muchen’s monthly pay for the lavish order.
• Xie Feng estimated that the sun and moon would join the next day and questioned an attendant about the immortal market.
• The attendant explained that only those at or above Heavenly Immortal could enter, and visitors had to leave within four hours or risk disappearing.
• Xie Feng offered the attendant two hundred thousand immortal pills, but the attendant returned the spatial rings and kept only one pill.
• A fair-faced attendant saw the departing attendant pale and sweating with a jade box and mistakenly suspected he had sold himself for money.

Xie Feng and Changying entered the Immortal Market and paid an immortal pill to attend an auction in the Treasure Exhibition Pavilion. They watched several lots pass without bidding, and the chapter left them waiting as another sale concluded.

• Yun Muchen, Xie Feng, and Changying entered the Immortal Market through the golden vortex, then Xie Feng and Changying split off to browse.
• Xie Feng and Changying found nothing worth buying at the stalls and headed into the Treasure Exhibition Pavilion.
• Changying paid the pavilion attendant with an immortal pill, and the attendant seated her and Xie Feng near the front of an auction room.
• Xie Feng and Changying watched the dancers perform before the gold-robed old man began auctioning items concealed under mystic cloth.
• Xie Feng assessed each lot with his perception but did not bid, and another sale concluded after half an hour.

Xie Feng recognized that the auction’s final exhibit was a stone connected to Supreme Saint Qi and won it after outbidding a blue-cloaked woman. He paid with five million immortal pills and two Intermediate Saint Grade pills, then went backstage with Changying to complete the transaction.

• Xie Feng sensed Supreme Saint Qi within the seemingly ordinary stone and decided to bid for it with Changying’s encouragement.
• Xie Feng and the blue-cloaked woman raised the bids until he offered ten million immortal pills, forcing her to withdraw.
• After the auction ended, Xie Feng admitted he could not pay ten million immortal pills and offered five million instead.
• Xie Feng presented two Intermediate Saint Grade pills to complete the purchase, and the gold-robed elder accepted the exchange.
• Xie Feng went backstage with Changying, while the blue-cloaked woman watched him and rose only after most of the bidders had left.

The blue-cloaked Manor Master ordered an investigation into Xie Feng after he left the auction. At the immortal market, Yun Muchen reclaimed a sword he had reserved two hundred years earlier, while Cang Lingzi bought a pair of horns and exposed the sword’s value, sending Yun Muchen fleeing.

• The blue-cloaked Manor Master reflected on Xie Feng’s concealed strength and told Jiu Zhi to investigate his background.
• Yun Muchen searched the immortal market for the old stallholder who had promised to keep a sword for him two hundred years earlier.
• Yun Muchen found the stallholder, paid three hundred immortal coins for the sword, and believed its dull blade concealed extraordinary power.
• Cang Lingzi bought the stallholder’s old horns for twenty immortal coins and gave him ten intermediate immortal-grade pills in return.
• Cang Lingzi pointed out that Yun Muchen’s sword was worth nine immortal pills, prompting Yun Muchen to flee as the stallholder realized its value.
• Cang Lingzi watched Yun Muchen run and revealed that he had once been called the Blood Emperor, the Blood Devil, and Mo Ren, but was now the Heaven Pavilion master’s personal disciple and fourth on the Heavenly Ranking.

Xie Feng refined the Saint's Source Crystal into six Saint Veins and used four of them to strengthen his companions, who broke through in cultivation. The Heavenly Ranking then changed dramatically, placing five members of the Xuanji Sect among its top ten.

• Xie Feng used the Northern Nether Illusory Flame and his soul power to break the seal on the Saint's Source Crystal and extract six Saint Veins.
• Xie Feng returned to Great Wilderness Heaven with Changying and Yun Muchen, where Yan Fei, Zhou Jin, and Zhou Zhulu emerged from seclusion at higher cultivation stages.
• Xie Feng gave Saint Vein Golden Pearls to Yan Fei, Zhou Jin, Zhou Zhulu, and Yun Muchen; they swallowed them and broke through, while Changying declined one.
• The Heavenly Ranking changed, placing Zhou Zhulu second, Changying third, Yun Muchen seventh, and Zhou Jin eighth, with Xie Feng remaining first.
• Yun Muchen saw that his greater age put him below Luo Xingchuan despite their equal cultivation.

Li Fuyou saw Zhou Zhulu's name on the Heavenly Ranking and set out to reunite with his old friend. Six months later, Xie Feng and his companions arrived in Ten Thousand Immortals City for the Ten Thousand Immortals Assembly, where the innkeeper recognized Yun Muchen.

• Li Fuyou recognized Zhou Zhulu on the Heavenly Ranking and left the river of stars, intending to find him.
• Madam Wenqu and Xuanyuan Zhige discussed Changying's future, Lord Yaoguang's return, and the Seven Stars Domain's plans for the Ten Thousand Immortals Assembly.
• Six months later, Xie Feng, Changying, Zhou Jin, Zhou Zhulu, and Yun Muchen traveled to Ten Thousand Immortals City in Withering and Flourishing Heaven.
• Zhou Zhulu and Yun Muchen discussed the assembly's contestants and the difficult qualifiers while the group searched for an inn.
• The innkeeper recognized Yun Muchen and hurried to offer him the finest rooms.

Yun Muchen tried to secure rooms for Xie Feng’s group, but Feng Beiyou and Azure Nether Heaven also claimed the inn’s remaining rooms. After Xie Feng’s group went upstairs, Ye Yuan confronted Feng Beiyou with a barrage of insults and then passed the argument to Meng Wuqu.

• Yun Muchen offered to pay for five rooms, but Feng Beiyou arrived with his group and demanded seven rooms.
• Yun Muchen paid the innkeeper first, while Feng Beiyou mocked him and threatened Xie Feng over Immortal Elder Liu’s death in Great Wilderness Heaven.
• Zhou Jin traded insults with Feng Beiyou, and Ye Yuan arrived, excitedly greeting Xie Feng as his boss.
• Xie Feng left Ye Yuan to handle Feng Beiyou and went upstairs with his group.
• Ye Yuan berated Feng Beiyou for trying to take Xie Feng’s rooms, then ran out of breath and asked Meng Wuqu to take over.

Meng Wuqu drove Feng Beiyou and the Azure Nether Heaven elders away, then reunited with Xie Feng and Ye Yuan. After Ye Yuan lost badly to Xie Feng at chess, Meng Wuqu thanked Xie Feng for helping open the path to ascension and began explaining why he had been stranded in the Lower Realm.

• Meng Wuqu ordered Feng Beiyou and the Azure Nether Heaven elders to leave, and Feng Beiyou recognized him as Lord Kaiyang and fled rather than offend him.
• Ye Yuan praised Xie Feng’s talent and accomplishments while the three shared tea at the inn.
• Ye Yuan challenged Xie Feng to chess but lost even faster than before, and Xie Feng noted that Ye Yuan had stayed calmer after losing.
• Meng Wuqu bowed to Xie Feng and thanked him for opening the Heavenly Gate, offering his help in return.
• Xie Feng asked why Meng Wuqu had been stranded in the Lower Realm, and Meng Wuqu began recounting his past.